Cesare Battisti, the former
leftwing terrorist arrested in January after almost 40 years as
a fugitive to Italian justice, has for the first time admitted
responsibility to the four murders he was convicted of, Milan
prosecutors said on Monday.
Battisti also confessed to being behind three cases of bodily
harm and a number of robberies staged to finance his terror
gang, the PAC, the prosecutors said.
Milan Prosecutor Francesco Greco said the confession wipes
away "years of controversy" and showed that police and
magistrates had worked effectively in shedding light on the PAC
since the 1970s.
During decades as a fugitive in France and then Brazil,
Battisti had always denied being responsible for the crimes he
was convicted of.
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